British soldier building sandcastles with a little boy, in France, during World War I. This shows a ‘Tommy’ playing at building sandcastles with a little boy on a beach in northern France. The boy is dressed in the traditional sailors garb that appears so often in photographs of children from this era. In the middle ground, two French women and a group of British soldiers look on approvingly.

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